Letters to the Editor
Mike LeP
Published Letters: 399 Editor's Choice: 6
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Of course Hillary is "in it to win it"
[Read the article: She's still in it to win it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary has stayed married to a serial philanderer who subjected her to repeated public humiliations, and she's spent millions and countless hours in pursuit of this goal. You're surprised she's going to press on? Hillary's tenacity is admirable, until you realize she's driven entirely by political ambition and seems to have nothing else in her life...
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Joan, elitism isn't unique to Obama supporters ...
[Read the article: Some thoughts about West Virginia ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... it's been a problem in the Democratic party for ages. This is one of the challenges of being a big tent party whose most vocal members are (lets face it) urban blacks and upper class coastal liberals. A lot of these voters really do have contempt for the kind of middle American voters who tend to vote GOP.
Hillary has been courting working class whites out of necessity; she's lost every other demographic and is getting clobbered among blacks. If Hillary had won the nomination, you'd see just as many disparaging remarks about cowpoke backwater rubes voting against their interests in red states.
I agree with you that Democrats have a lot of work to do in reaching out to these voters, but I think you're wrong to imply this is a problem with Obama in particular. The entire party is responsible for its condescending attitude toward middle America.
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Right back at you, KStone
[Read the article: Can Barack Obama win West Virginia?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the unintended hilarity. First, by explaining that I'm repeating what I've heard from the "chattering classes" (a phrase you were so enamoured of you bothered to repeat it) but you're getting the views of African Americans right from the barbershops and churches where they hang out. And second, by telling me you were done with the conversation and immediately writing me back. Funny!
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If Hillary doesn't win, I'm voting for McCain.
[Read the article: NARAL endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've got to ask: Why?
If Obama didn't win the nomination I'd planned to throw my vote away on a third party candidate. But I've been registered independent my entire voting life. I only registered Dem to vote in the Pennsylvania primary and supporting Hillary wasn't an option.
Assuming you're a Democrat, I can't understand why you'd vote for McCain in the fall, since his stated policies stand in direct contrast to your party's platform.
Just wondering.
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Listen to Shawn
[Read the article: Quote of the Day: Barack Obama ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's been hanging out at shoe stores, beauty salons, Bed Bath and Beyond, and other places frequented by women, so he knows what they think about this latest gaffe by sexist closet muslim Barry Hussein Obama. And they are pissed! !@#$$%*#$
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Obama's camp is just trying to control the media spotlight as usual.
[Read the article: Edwards endorsing Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That devious bastard!
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It matters ...
[Read the article: Edwards announces his support for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... in that it takes the focus off the West Virginia vote and strongly supporters the idea that Obama's nomination is inevitable and it's time for Democrats to support the party nominee. With the exception of Al Gore, this is probably the single biggest endorsement available to either candidate. So while I'm not sure it's going to win Obama votes (and I don't think he needs them), it certainly is a help in wrapping up the nomination.
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This is getting ridiculous ...
[Read the article: More negative reaction to NARAL]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Hillary were up by 170-someodd delegates and nearly a million raw votes, would anyone care if NARAL endorsed her before the contests were over? The org made a strategic decision to back the apparent nominee. This primary has done a lot to confirm the stereotype that liberals will always choose deliberation and fairness over common sense...
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Sorenreport
[Read the article: Clinton supporters push back against NARAL endorsement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The candidates are close in every respect.
They really aren't close.
Obama is up by about 160 pledged delegates. For some perspective, Hillary's big win in Pennsylvania netted her 12 delegates over Obama. She would have to beat him by roughly that same margin in another dozen states of a comparable size just to tie him in pledged delegates.
The way the party apportions delegates, it's extremely hard for one candidate to build up any kind of lead. Obama doesn't lead in delegates because he beat Hillary in a few states. He's clobbered her by 30% or more of the vote in 13 contests. This race was over when Obama won eleven straight post-Super Tuesday contests, most of them by landslide margins (for example, 29% in Virginia).
In addition to a huge delegate lead, Obama has won more states, more superdelegates, about a million more raw votes, and he leads Hillary by 5-8% among Democrats in national polls.
It's really not close at all.
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You don't get it Achilles...
[Read the article: Steelworkers follow Edwards]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While you sit here repeating the "conventional wisdom" passed down to you by the chattering classes, Shawn has been hanging out with and talking to actual steelworkers in those traditional places where they work and live, like steel mills around Pittsburgh and stuff. And based on what they've been telling him, never in a million years would anyone associated with the steel industry ever vote for an anti-feminist closet Muslim like Obama !$#%!#$% !
Hope that helps.
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No need to overreact ...
[Read the article: California Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the GOP playbook of running on the three G's (guns, gays and God) and demonizing the opponent as an effette, flip-flopping, latte sipping appeasement monkey has grown awfully stale. Bush barely beat an awful candidate (John Kerry) as a wartime president four years ago - pre-Katrina and before Iraq war fatigue set in. I really think if the GOP keeps pressing these non-issues and runs on a smear campaign full of dog whistle politics and thinly veiled race baiting, it's got the potential to boomerang on them in a bad way. Unlike Al Gore and John Kerry, Barrack Obama won't blink in the face ofthose kind of attacks.
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Liberals are such wimps
[Read the article: Will gay marriage doom the Democrats?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Part of the reason these wedge issues "doom" Democrats year after year is that Dems constantly shy away from these issues, which gives the impression there's something wrong with defending gay marriage rights. How about an articulate defense of gay marriage for a change? Republicans are going to mount a bold defense of the Iraq war in the fall. If that's not a deal-breaker, I see no reason why gay marriage is going to doom Obama. I'm convinced voters aren't put off by the issues so much as the Democrats spineless, half-assed defense of their own social policy positions.